No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and know…

Jack Kerouac
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge. ✨ Selected letters, 1940-1956.
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The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). Road Novels 1957-1960
Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1995). The Portable Jack Kerouac, V … ▶
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe t … ▶
We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Tristessa (Annotated), p.24, BookBaby
I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a … ▶

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